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The most important letters at the Cannes Film Festival this year are the first three; Can, as in Canada. For the first time in the festival’s 67-year history there are three Canadian films competing for the Palme d’or. And with just 18 films in competition this year, numbers alone give Canada its best shot at its first-ever top prize.

When James Gray came to cast Marion Cotillard as the star of his new film The Immigrant — a melodrama about a Polish newcomer to the United States in 1921, who is forced into prostitution in order to survive — he hadn’t seen any of her famous performances such as her Oscar-winning turn in La Vie En Rose. But he knew he had the right actress when they went to dinner and she threw a piece of bread in his face.

In the end, every holiday season revolves around eating. So this year’s holiday movie preview is targeted at your palate in the hopes of appealing to your particular cinematic taste. Because let’s face it, there is a huge buffet of film fare steaming its way to your local theatre, and few of us have an appetite or a pocketbook big enough to digest it all. That said, here is your holiday movie menu:

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